The Kansas City Chiefs take on the San Francisco 49ers at the Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada for Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday night.
The Chiefs come into this as the defending champions looking to become the first franchise since the New England Patriots in 2005 to win back to back Super Bowl championships. Meanwhile, the Niners are coming to the Super Bowl for just the second time this century, with their last win coming all the way back in 1995.
It’s set to be a fantastic night of NFL action as the curtain is set to open on sports biggest spectacle. We’ll preview the big game here, in the hopes we can help you pick out the eventual winner.
Destiny
Having featured in three of the last four Super Bowl championship games, many argue that it’s just destiny that will see the Chiefs land their third title in four years. That’s pretty hard to argue against at this point, given how well they’ve performed in the Play Offs to get to this point yet again. This is their chance to cement their place in history and become just the eighth franchise to win back to back Super Bowls.
For San Francisco, the feeling will be that just getting to this point indicates that it could be their year. After dominating the NFC in the regular season, the 49ers have seen off some tough opposition in the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions to get to this stage. A lack of experience could be what costs them in the long run, but as the old saying goes, you’ve got to be in it to win it and the team from North California are certainly in it.
Familiar foes
Interestingly, this is a rematch of the 2020 Super Bowl that took place in the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. It was a tense affair, as the two sides went into halftime all square at 10 points apiece, before the 49ers went on the offensive in the third quarter to go 20-10 in front. But this only inspired the Chiefs, who came back to score 21 unanswered points in the final quarter to take the championship 31-20.
The heartbreak from that night will no doubt still be with a lot of the players and supporters and this is a chance to put things right, or even avenge that loss. Either way, there should be plenty of motivation for San Francisco to give this final game everything they’ve got.
MVP
Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes landed the MVP trophy in that previous final in 2020 and, the way he’s been playing in the postseason so far, history may very well repeat itself in Nevada come early Monday morning. It’s not just a one man show either, both Christian McCaffrey and Travis Kelce have shown that they’re vital to the Chiefs offensive line. All in all, they have all of the tools necessary to go on and win again.
